Guardian Military Systems

Guardian Military Systems is a large corporation specializing in armaments.

• It primarily operates within the Solomani Confederation.

Market Ticker Code

This business entity is traded under the following interstellar market codes:

Market Ticker Code
Name	Code	Type	Charter	Remarks
Guardian Military Systems	GMSys	Defense	LLC	Guardian is a major supplier of military equipment to the Solomani Confederation.

Description (Portfolio)

Guardian Military Systems is a diversified manufacturer of weapon systems and heavy military hardware and is considered to be a key part of the Solomani defense industry. It operates across the spinward regions of Solomani space but its core area of operations has always been Canopus Sector.

Commercial Competencies

• Primary logistics and materials processing.
• CAD, practical design and tooling.
• Cutting, shaping, and joining materials.
• Precision construction and manufacturing.
• Testing and proving.
• Specialties, variants, and limited production runs.
• Retrofitting, conversions, and modifications.
• High security storage of finished products.

Governance & Organization

Guardian Military Systems is governed by a Chairman, a Board of Trustees and a Board of Partners, all of whom have high-level contacts in the Confederation government. Business operations are divided by sector and by region within a sector: Sector Offices and Regional Offices are run by a Senior Operating Officer, an executive board, and Departmental Directors. Each Office has an extensive Records Office, an Internal Audit Office, a Legal Department, a Logistics Office, a Sophont Resources Office, a Public Relations Office, a Finance Department, and an Office of Internal Security.

Head Office:

The head office is located on Ariette, a technolgically advanced industrial world lying close to the center of Canopus Sector. As well as the main administrative complexes its headquarters includes estates located in wilderness regions, testing ranges, managed parkland and a number of exclusive villas where business may be undertaken in complete privacy. The company controls a number of private spaceport facilities on the world.

Major Divisions:

• Research and Development
• Light Division
• Heavy Division
• Energy Division
• Military Division
• Consumables Division
• Defense Division
• Special Projects Group

Stockholders

Stock ownership:

• Private Ownership – 32%,
• Public Ownership – 28%,
• Trusts – 18%
• Financial Institutions – 15%,
• Daughters of the Confederation – 7%.

Subsidiaries

Multiple, chiefly small businesses manufacturing specialist components.

Notable Investments

Multiple.

Corporate Holdings

The company maintains Regional Head Offices, administrative centers, fabrication facilities, assembly plants, factories and industrial complexes on worlds across the region. It holds substantial amounts of machinery, tools, vehicles, supplies, and the supporting equipment and technology necessary to maintain operations. Its various assets and holdings are protected by corporate security.

• The company has a fleet of small personnel transport vessels.

Best Known Products & Services

This business is best known for:

1. Hoplite series Advanced Combat Rifles
2. Stop-It personal armor.

History & Background (Dossier)

The corporation was founded by a consortium of business interests during the early years of the 9th century. It holds Favored Contractor status with several world governments, supplying Home Forces with inexpensive but generally good quality weapon systems, including the Hoplite ACR.

Solomani Security quietly keeps an eye on its activities to ensure the security of the Confederation and the well-being of its loyal citizens. Almost anyone could be a SolSec informant, passing on all sorts of useful information: some gain a reward or benefit for their actions, others are coerced, but many see it as an act of duty to help protect the Solomani state and its interests.

Trade Partners

• Probable Technologies, an organization devoted to scientific research that works closely with the Confederation military.
• Solomani Maschinenbau AG, a heavy engineering firm that produces military starships and vehicles.
• ZeeCorp, a major manufacturer of commercial goods and products.

Trade Competitors

Multiple. Guardian mostly chooses to ignore them, safe in the knowledge that while other manufacturers may make superior items, its own product range are perfectly fit for purpose, are well supported in terms of accessories, are far more widely available, and most importantly represent very good value for money.

Corporate Timeline

Major events that have affected this corporation and the wider region that it lies within:

• 704: The Solomani Autonomous Region is formed.
• early 800s: A consortium of business interests found the corporation on Ariette.
• 871: The Solomani Confederation is founded.
• 880: The company is granted a charter by the Confederation.
• 940: The Solomani Autonomous Region is dissolved.
• 990-1002: The Solomani Rim War.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

This business is best known for frequenting the markets of the following regions:
Charted Space - Solomani Confederation:

• Aldebaran Sector
• Canopus Sector
• Magyar Sector

Facilities Data

This business is known to host major facilities in the following locations:

• Ariette, a technologically advanced industrial world that serves as the company headquarters.

World Listing

Comprehensive Second Survey data for all worlds that are associated with Guardian Military Systems is available.

• The primary source material for all data is Traveller Map.
• Other sources may differ: some elements of the data may be contradictory or incorrect.
• Data is occasionally updated as new information becomes available.

AAB library archives contain expanded data about the following systems:

1 of 1 World articles in Guardian Military Systems

Ariette  •  

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Note that some Second Survey data, though only 40 years old, may already be out of date.

• Scouting missions gathering reliable, verified data can receive substantial payment.

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• Author & Contributor: Garnfellow
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS